More on the microbial encyclopaedia

Yesterday (depending on your GMT) I commented about a very nice article on Nature, but forgot to include a few links discussing the work:

• Biologists rally to sequence 'neglected' microbes (Nature news from 17 November 2009, behind a paywall)
• Microbial encyclopaedia guided by evolution (Nature news from 23 December 2009)
• Choice genomes sequenced (Nature editor's summary from 24 December 2009)
• Filling in the evolutionary blanks, genome by genome (blog post by Iddo Friedberg)
• Presenting a genomic encyclopedia of bacteria (and archaea) (Ars Technica article)
• the homepage for the Integrated Microbial Genomes - Genome Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea Genomes (IMG/GEBA) database
• torrent file for current GEBA data at biotorrents (keep it cool, IP maximalists, it's legit)

Jonathan Eisen has a more complete list of links, together with the story behind this paper - read it, it's long but certainly inspiring.